ἐπαινεῖ (epainei)

ἐπαινεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπαινέω, meaning “praise, approve”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 84 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.1.34: … νάμενος ἰδεῖν τὰ ἐπὶ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ οἴει γνώσεσθαι; οἶδε δʼ αὐτὸν ἀστρονομούμενον καὶ Τίμων, καὶ ἐν τοῖς Σίλλοις ἐπαινεῖ αὐτὸν λέγων· οἷόν θʼ ἑπτὰ Θάλητα σοφῶν σοφὸν ἀστρονόμημα. Τὰ δὲ γεγραμμένα ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ φησι Λόβων ὁ Ἀργεῖος εἰς …

All forms of ἐπαινέω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.